000			02118cam a2200289Ii 4500
999			_c59949 _d59949
001			on1085590925
003			OCoLC
005			20191025144720.0
008			190215s2019 nyu 000 f eng d
020			_a0062838237
020			_a9780062838230 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)on1085590925
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dBDX _dATNSH _dLIV _dDYJ _dON8
082		4	_a813
100	1		_aFishman, Zoe, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aInvisible as air
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bWilliam Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, _c2019.
300			_a392, 14 pages ; _c21 cm
520			_aSylvie Snow knows the pressures of expectations: a woman is supposed to work hard, but never be tired; age gracefully, but always be beautiful; fix the family problems, but always be carefree. Sylvie does the grocery shopping, the laundry, the scheduling, the schlepping and the PTA-ing, while planning her son's Bar Mitzvah and cheerfully tending her husband, Paul, who's been lying on the sofa with a broken ankle. She's also secretly addicted to the Oxycontin intended for her husband. For three years, Sylvie has repressed her grief about the heartbreaking stillbirth of her newborn daughter, Delilah. On the morning of the anniversary of her death, when she just can't face doing one...more...thing: she takes one--just one--of her husband's discarded pain pills. And suddenly she feels patient, kinder, and miraculously relaxed. She tells herself that the pills are temporary, just a gift, and that when the supply runs out she'll go back to her regularly scheduled programming. But days turn into weeks, and Sylvie slips slowly into a nightmare. At first, Paul and Teddy are completely unaware, but this changes quickly as her desperate choices reveal her desperate state. As the Bar Mitzvah nears, all three of them must face the void within themselves, both alone and together.
650		0	_aOpioid abuse _vFiction.
650		0	_aFamily secrets _vFiction.
650		0	_aMothers _vFiction.
942			_2ddc _cF